Word: phi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fraternities of the '70s have taken on some new dimensions. Though parties and interhouse sporting events are still popular, there is a growing interest in community projects. Last fall Miami's Alpha Epsilon Phi and its sister sorority, Delta Zeta, held a "showerthon"-during which students took showers for 360 straight hours in an especially rigged bathtub on the street-and raised more than $1,500 for the American Cancer Society. At the University of Kansas, the Interfraternity Council has assumed sponsorship of the semiannual campus blood drive...
...experiments on a "transfer factor" in animal immunology had produced spectacular results, gaining publication in scientific journals and the attention of immunologists round the world. Furthermore, one of the group, Steven Rosenfeld, an undergraduate Wunderkind who had started the research as a summer project-had just been elected to Phi Beta Kappa...
...Harvard Crimson, began with Dressler's discovery that Rosenfeld had written his own recommendation for a Harvard-M.I.T. medical program-and forged Dressler's signature on the bottom. Further investigation revealed that Rosenfeld had also fabricated at least three other letters recommending him for Phi Beta Kappa and a fellowship. The deceptions might have gone unnoticed even longer had not Rosenfeld exaggerated his own importance. One of the letters of recommendation over Dressler's signature indicated that Rosenfeld single-handed had thought up the whole idea for the research project. That hyperbole aroused the suspicion...
...following 24 seniors have been elected to the Alpha Chapter Phi Beta Kappa: Thomas D. Balliet of North House and Frankfurt, Germany; Ben S. Bernanke of Winthrop House and Augusta, Ga.; Daniel E. Blustein of Leverett House and White Plains, N.Y.; Everett J. Bowman of Adams House and Wilmington, N.C.; Peter A. Carfagna Jr. of Eliot House and Cleveland, Ohio; Steven J. Carlip of South House and Middletown, Conn.; Wnders E. Carlsson of Dunster House and Vastervik, Sweden; Ronald M. Constine of Quincy House and San Francisco, Cal.; Douglas E. Critchlow of South House and Morrestown, N.J.; Thomas G. Goodwillie...
...best-oiled political machines, she served as secretary of state for twelve years and was twice elected to Congress. As the daughter of Italian immigrants, she belongs to the state's largest ethnic group. Her husband Tom, a retired principal, is also an Italian American. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate from Mount Hoiyoke, Grasso speaks the language of the classroom as easily as she does the Piedmont dialect of Italy on the front porch...